The MAD principle, “Mutually Assured Destruction,” has kept us safe from nuclear attack for more than 70 years. But imagine that China, or Beijing allied with Moscow, launched ICBMs at the United States and we couldn’t respond in kind — and China and Russia knew it. How much disincentive would these nations have against launching a nuclear first strike?
This terrifying prospect could become a reality according to U.S. intelligence officials, as Chinese communications equipment in America could be a technological Trojan horse.
As CNN reported Monday in “CNN Exclusive: FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications,” the feds uncovered information relating
to Chinese-made Huawei equipment atop cell towers near US military bases in the rural Midwest. According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, the FBI determined the equipment was capable of capturing and disrupting highly restricted Defense Department communications, including those used by US Strategic Command, which oversees the country’s nuclear weapons.
While broad concerns about Huawei equipment near US military installations have been well known, the existence of this investigation and its findings have never been reported. Its origins stretch back to at least the Obama administration. It was described to CNN by more than a dozen sources, including current and former national security officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
It’s unclear if the intelligence community determined whether any data was actually intercepted and sent back to Beijing from these towers. Sources familiar with the issue say that from a technical standpoint, it’s incredibly difficult to prove a given package of data was stolen and sent overseas.
… But multiple sources familiar with the investigation tell CNN that there’s no question the Huawei equipment has the ability to intercept not only commercial cell traffic but also the highly restricted airwaves used by the military and disrupt critical US Strategic Command communications, giving the Chinese government a potential window into America’s nuclear arsenal.
Unfortunately, this is just another example in the long-standing phenomenon of globalist pseudo-elites selling us out to China. In fact, ex-president Bill Clinton did this back in the ’90s. As commentator David Horowitz wrote in a 2016 book, the Clinton “administration’s voluntary release of all the secrets of America’s nuclear tests, combined with the systematic theft of the secrets that were left as a result of its lax security controls, effectively wiped out America’s technological edge.”
And now we have to worry about further folly wiping out our technological parity. As American Military News reports on the current story, “The proliferation of Chinese telecommunications equipment around the U.S. complicates efforts to protect sensitive national security infrastructure.”
“Huawei has been installing its equipment in key U.S. locations since at least the early 2010s,” the site continues. “Huawei has secured numerous contracts along stretches of Interstate 25 and traffic corridors that connect parts of Nebraska, Colorado, Montana and Wyoming — an area of the country that is heavily populated with nuclear missile silos.”
Legal Insurrection adds:
President Donald Trump was one of the first Western leaders to foresee the security threat posed by Huawei and other Chinese telecom players, which act as the extended arm of Beijing’s military and intelligence-gathering operation. In May 2019, President Trump declared a “national emergency” over the threat posed by these hostile tech giants.
… The Trump administration also warned the European and Western allies against allowing the Chinese companies from entering their telecom markets, particularly in the rollout of the next generation of 5g mobile network. The presence of China-made equipment in the networks of NATO countries compromised the security cooperation with these allies, the former president believed.
President Trump “instructed me to make clear that any nation who chooses to use an untrustworthy 5G vendor will jeopardize our ability to share intelligence and information at the highest level,” the then-U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, cautioned the European allies back in February 2019 .
None of this is surprising. With China embracing the Mussolini-esque “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state” fascist model, we shouldn’t consider there to be any separation between its government and its business sector. In fact, a Beijing law actually dictates that every Chinese company and all China’s 1.4 billion citizens are required to, at the state’s behest, engage in spying when asked. Thus is every Chinese national and entity a possible espionage risk.
Add to this that Beijing succeeds in censoring our movies, putting its propaganda in our schools, and bullying our businesses — and apparently unleashed the coronavirus upon the world — and it’s clear that this isn’t your grandfather’s China. We since then “opened the nation up,” and, with the help of its fifth-column technology, it’s now trying to shut us down.
